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To: Daniel G. DeBusschere who wrote (10716)	6/7/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Respond to of 29970

Dan, Monopolies might come to exist on different levels. What you are suggesting, tongue in cheek aside, for a moment... "...I didn't want to do this but they made me do it. What better way to get a monopoly on the last mile? " ...would grant them physical layer monopoly rights. But how would opening up the loop allow T to gain monopoly rights in the application layers, where it seeks benefits through its overall service bundling strategy? Something would be lost there, despite their monopoly status on the physical medium. At some point we can examine each of the seven layers of the OSI Reference Model (each of the building blocks which make up the overall data communications link), and assign monopoly status to each layer, or to groups of layers. Physical layer access and transport, along with local network management, could go to T. Application, down through routing, could go to independent ISPs. Etc. Comments welcome... Regards, Frank Coluccio